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Title: Egyptian Government: Gebel Aulia Dam and Other Subsidiary Works on the White Nile, Sudan. General Conditions of Contract, Specification, Schedule of Prices, and Sundry Other Schedules, Bond, Formal Contract, Tender and Instructions to Persons Tendering.
Description: Westminster, Wightman & Co, 1933. Cloth. The fascinating and very scarce contract made between the Egyptian Government and the engineers employed to construct the Gebel Aulia Dam on the White Nile. A fascinating and very scarce publication from the Egyptian Government detailing the contract signed on the 4th September 1933 between His Excellency Mohamed Shafik Pasha, Minister of Public Works on behalf of the Egyptian Government, and the contractors - Gibson & Pauling Ltd. - employed to construct the Gebel Aulia Dam on the Sudanese White Nile.The Gebel Aulia Dam, also known as the Jebel Aulia Dam, is located on the White Nile in Sudan, near Khartoum. With construction beginning the year of this contract, 1933, and completing in 1937, when completed it was the largest dam in the world. The dam was built by Gibson and Pauling (Foreign) Ltd, which was a partnership between the British civil engineering company Pauling & Co. and the civil engineer John Watson Gibson.This dam was one of the many undertakings of the Gezira Scheme, one of the world's largest irrigation projects, started by the British while the area was governed as a part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It involves water from the Blue Nile being distributed through canals and ditches to tenant farms lying between the Blue and White Nile rivers, for the purposes of growing cotton.Among the many aspects covered by the contract are charts detailing costs of materials and estimated schedules.From the library of Frederic Newhouse (1883-1969), sometime inspector-general of Egyptian irrigation in the Sudan, and with his contemporary inscription to the head of the front wraps, dated 1933.To the front free endpaper is attached by a nail two typed sheets of statistics titled 'Notes on Gebel Aulia Dam (Figures are not final)&apos. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with marks to rear board and contemporary inscription to head of front board. Two leaves of typed paper attached to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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